Chemotherapy for vaginal cancer

Chemotherapy is sometimes used to treat vaginal cancer.

Chemotherapy is the use of anti-cancer (cytotoxic) drugs to treat cancer. It is usually a systemic therapy that circulates throughout the body and destroys cancer cells, including those that may have broken away from the primary tumour.

Chemotherapy may be used:

together with radiation therapy to make the radiation more effective

to relieve pain or to control the symptoms of advanced vaginal cancer (palliative chemotherapy)